Put the Machete Away

I love lazy days on the river, floating in a Walmart inner tube, laughing, splashing, getting sunburned.If you ran like a wild man from the woods, waving a machete, with the intent of slashing my tube in half, you likely wouldn't get to me as quickly as I could simply float by.If, however, you snuck up to my pickup, and punctured a few pinholes in my tube, I wouldn’t notice. That is, until I was half way down the river with no explanation for why I was taking on water. Would I make it? Definitely not.All it takes are a few pinholes to bring the whole thing down.Put your machete away.Big, intimidating, violent: this is not how most of us effect change.Sharpen your tools, hone your gifts, perfect your craft, polish your voice, and make a pinhole or two.In time the whole thing will sink.